Lala Lullaby @ Rainbow Serpent 2009

This is what it's like to sit inside a giant cosy knitted egg, swinging inside a five metre tall pyramid, being pushed by two costumed creatures while your motion generates a multilayered, synthesised, quadraphonic soundscape...

Featuring Lukas Whatwhat SamIam Kim Pippa Jez Za. Vid by Pippa, musical sculpture by Richard Allen, Pippa Willison and Paul Irving.

A mysterious sculpture, an engaging performance, a hypnotic soundscape, an experience in aural acrobatics, LaLaLullaby is all these and a bit more.

Techy stuff : Feedback potentiometers measure the major axes of movement and rotation which are translated into MIDI by a Miditron or Arduino board. Midi utils perform some calcs to get more controls which then drive an Audiomulch Metasurface software synth and a Nord Modular G2 hardware synth which also handles the quad speaker panning effects. A live Mbira (thumb piano) is played by Richie and sent to the quad mix for a proper Lullaby effect... Oh yeah, and the whole lot is solar powered off a system we carry about in our Fire Engine.

Egg cover spun and knitted by hand by Pippa from 37 Alpaca fleeces.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lala
• Lullaby
• Lalalullaby
• rainbow
• serpent
• audiomulch
• miditron
• metasurface
• solar
• power
• nord
• modular
• g2
• arduino
• midi
• egg
• alpaca

[d0md0mt0mt0m]

Is it gonna be there next year?

[lalalullaby7]

Ask the Rainbow team! We have offered, but they haven't booked us yet, so we may be at another gig...

Fingers crossed.

[djdarkat]

awesome!

[tunesagogo]

What an awesome contraption!! Trippy, trippy stuff!!!